General Manager Innovation & Design

                                                                    Full Time, Permanent Role

• Full time role + 3 days additional leave days over Christmas and New Year
• Receive salary packaging benefits + 10.5% Super contribution + generous car allowance
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements + work across our Thomastown and Heidelberg locations (Wurundjeri Country)

Kids First have a prominent 120-year history of safeguarding children achieved through an unwavering commitment to people and transformation. If you want to lead innovation and are looking for meaning and substance working for an organisation that acknowledges your value by offering great working conditions and flexible working arrangements, then this could be your next opportunity.

Your new role:

Be a creative visionary with the ability to see opportunities whilst having the business acumen to shepherd ideas from the seedling staffed through to production.

• Lead, manage and grow our Innovation & Design team, fostering individual and collective creativity
• Marshal our Innovation Incubator through research, insight, co-design, prototype and business modelling
• Oversee our Client Voice Program, ensuring client insight is at the heart of decision making
• Develop and deliver new concepts and models, service and channel design and, written proposals to secure and renew funding – identifying opportunities and for growth

About you:

• Tertiary qualifications/experience in Business, Engineering, Marketing or related field
• A proven track record in business innovation, service design and relationship management
• Senior leadership experience and highly developed stakeholder engagement skills
• Exceptional writer with superior attention to detail, with the ability to write tenders and proposals
• Team player who is energetic, positive, friendly and has a flexible approach
• Demonstrated experience in developing digital and innovation strategies to create new products will be highly regarded for this role

How we reward you:

• An organisation that truly lives its values
• Be entitled to a car allowance
• Enjoy benefits such as generous salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
• Accrue leave faster when you register with our Rostered Day Off agreement
• We understand the importance of flexible working and have a policy to support this
• It’s important to spend time with family and friends at Christmas, which is why you get 3 additional leave days
• Access our Staff Wellbeing Program